Standardized Testing and Reporting - STAR

More Information about STAR

STAR Parent Guides

The California Department of Education provides printed parent
guides containing samples of the STAR Program released questions.

The California Department of Education and ETS grant
permission to California public schools and school districts to
photocopy and reproduce any parts of the 2008-09 California
Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) materials posted on
this Web site for use in training STAR coordinators and
teachers/administrators who administer the California Standards
Tests; the California Modified Assessment; the California
Alternate Performance Assessment; and the Standards-based Tests
in Spanish. No other person or agency is authorized to reproduce
or distribute any parts of these publications in any form or by
any means or to store the information in any database or
retrieval system.

To view the parent guide for a specific grade, select from the
choices below:

Frequently Asked Questions

A: A statistical method was used to select
from all released test questions those that would best exemplify
the STAR CST performance levels.

Q: How were the questions tied to a
particular performance level?

A: If the majority (65 percent or higher) of
students at a specific performance level answered correctly, the
question was selected. Then, of those questions selected, the
questions were further examined to see which best fit the
standards.